At Alpha Modalities, we design and manufacture patient slings with safety and comfort in mind. Because we offer both loop and chip attachment options, all of our slings are compatible with all North American ceiling and floor lift systems. We offer Washable, Wipeable, and Single Patient Use slings. All of our slings are manufactured in the USA.
At Arjo, we are committed to improving the everyday lives of people affected by reduced mobility and age-related health challenges. With products and solutions that ensure ergonomic patient handling, personal hygiene, disinfection, diagnostics, and the effective prevention of pressure ulcers and venous thromboembolism, we help professionals across care environments to continually raise the standard of safe and dignified care. Everything we do, we do with people in mind.
Hillrom is a global medical technology leader whose 10,000 employees have a single purpose: enhancing outcomes for patients and their caregivers by advancing connected care. Around the world, our innovations touch over 7 million patients each day. They help enable earlier diagnosis and treatment, optimize surgical efficiency and accelerate patient recovery while simplifying clinical communication and shifting care closer to home. We make these outcomes possible through connected smart beds, patient lifts, patient assessment and monitoring technologies, caregiver collaboration tools, respiratory care devices, advanced operating room equipment and more, delivering actionable, real-time insights at the point of care.
Designing, implementing and sustaining an integrated mobility program can be challenging. Hill-Rom provides a consultative approach to ensure your safe patient handling and mobility program addresses your unique challenges. Together, we will create a pathway designed to help protect patients while mobilizing earlier and often.
We provide customized consulting to support new and existing Safe Patient Handling and Mobility practices, integration into fall prevention, early mobility, bariatric care, injury reduction, and adoption of the Bedside Mobility Assessment Tool.
I have over 12 years of dedicated safe patient handling and mobility experience with an emphasis to providing early and progressive mobility for my patients through an interdisciplinary collaboration with SPHM practices. I am a certified SPHM professional through the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals. I have served on the ASPHP Board of Directors 2013-2016 and currently chair the Examination Committee and sit on the Certification Executive Committee for the advancement of SPHM professional credentialing. I am passionate about the importance of mobilizing patients early and often within a safe and effective manner, and provide solutions to healthcare providers to achieve positive clinical, safety and financial outcomes.
Hill-Rom is a leading worldwide manufacturer and provider of medical technologies and related services for the health care industry, including patient support systems, safe mobility and handling solutions, non-invasive therapeutic products, and more. Hill-Rom’s comprehensive product and service offerings are used by health care providers across the health care continuum and around the world in hospitals, extended care facilities and home care settings to enhance the safety and quality of patient care. Everyday there are missed opportunities to mobilize patients, resulting in missed opportunities to enhance outcomes: clinically, financially, and operationally. Hill-Rom can help unlock opportunities with: proven approaches with Hill-Rom clinical programs, sustainable results through practice change, and unmatched support leveraging all that Hill-Rom has to offer. Hill-Rom’s people, products and programs work towards one mission: Every day, around the world, we enhance outcomes for patients and their caregivers. Visit www.hill-rom.com for more information.
At ProCare Innovations, we focus on flexible solutions for showering and hygiene and offer a wide and complete product range, improving the lives of both caregivers and residents.
Safety National® is a multi-line specialty insurance carrier that offers risk solutions for large commercial and public entity clients, insuring over 3 million U.S. healthcare workers. The company serves as an ally to policyholders, providing complimentary risk management resources to help improve safety and compliance programs.
We innovate healthcare for a safer, better experience, prioritizing patients and care providers with human-centered clinical solutions – including advanced slings, floor lifts, ceiling lifts, and therapeutic surfaces – building on a proud legacy rooted in Handicare and SPAN-America.
Susan Gallagher has been serving organizations worldwide for more than 2 decades as a recognized expert in safety, outcomes and communication with an emphasis on bariatrics, skin and wound care, safe patient handling and mobility, and risk and loss control. She is currently President of ASPHP, serves as Associate Editor for Workplace Health and Safety, and is author of the ANA Implementation Guide to the SPHM Interprofessional Standards and her most current book, Bariatric Safe Patient Handling and Mobility. Her research has been groundbreaking in pioneering better ways to provide a systems approach to complex situations. Her services included but not limited to Bariatric, SPHM Training, Customer Service Excellence, Gap Analysis: Bariatric, SPHM (pediatric, LTC/nursing home, acute care).Contact Dr. Gallagher at: 626-733-6242 or susangallagher@hotmail.com.
2019 marks twenty years of The Celebration Institute providing training and support worldwide to professional organizations, hospital associations, healthcare facilities, legal professionals, vendor providers, and research institutions. For more information, please visit our website at www.thecelebrationinstitute.org.
TR Equipment, founded in 1985, develops, manufactures and markets Patient Hygiene & Rehabilitation equipment, designed for people. The product range covers height adjustable bathtubs, shower trolleys, patient bath lifts and shower chairs for patients with high dependency, low mobility and severe disabilities. All products are manufactured in Sweden and Germany and marketed worldwide.
VANCARE has been recognized as a leading manufacturer of ceiling and mobile floor lifts in the US for over 25 years. With our innovative products and exceptional commitment to service, Vancare is poised for robust growth. We are committed to providing the world’s best technologies and services for Safe Patient Handling professionals.